Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After being raped at gunpoint and watching the same thing happen to my best friend, and then doing the "right" thing by wading through two days in the uninterested, if not abusive L. A. police department and hospital, with no results, I ask along with Steinem, "What do we do with our rage...
...anew. In one day there were at least 200 kidnapings. Two of the victims were Americans: Charles Gallagher and William Dykes, the director and deputy director of the regional center of the U.S. Information Service. The first foreigners to be kidnaped during the latest troubles, they were captured at gunpoint, apparently by leftist Moslems in the territory controlled by the Nasserite Organization Corrective Movement. At week's end there had been no ransom demand or word of their fate...
...Argentina, a representative of the United Nations' High Commission for Refugees thoughtfully brought pizzas and Coke to ten men who were holding 14 of his colleagues at gunpoint in the commission's Buenos Aires office...
...women is that they are still unlikely to win a rape conviction if they cannot present evidence of a struggle with the rapist, though fighting back may bring mutilation or murder. In an extreme example of this bias, a one-armed Chicago woman who had been raped at gunpoint was asked accusingly by the defense attorney: "Did you even try to grab the gun?" Yet researchers increasingly agree with the feminist advice to fight back unless the attacker is armed. Says Clinical Psychologist James Selkin, director of the Denver General Hospital's Violence Research Unit: "A potential rapist looks...
...Loeb tonight through Saturday, lacks the ring of truth. Who can believe a family in which the father is an utterly heartless tyrant, artfully manipulated by his sinister Southern belle of a daughter but so resented by his sons that one of them ends up robbing him at gunpoint? This is not to say that Hellman has drawn the dialogue verbatim from her own family dinner table or that each incident in the plot can be documented. But if you're familiar with Hellman's own background through her autobiographical writing--An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento...